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Signage Streamlines Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Part 1

By John W. DeWitt

When Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center decided to implement a new, hospital-wide clinical, financial, and patient workflow system, it also seemed the right time to replace the dry-erase boards that tracked patients’ progress through operating rooms and other treatment processes. ...

Picture This: LCD Market Watch

By Jeff Sauer

Over the last several years, LCD has become the dominant technology for new HDTV purchases. According to DisplaySearch a market-research firm in Austin,...

World Market Center Las Vegas, Part 2

By John W. DeWitt

World Market Center Las Vegas, host of the semi-annual Las Vegas Market event and year-round home to the Las Vegas Design Center, opened its third building this summer and will continue expanding aggressively over the next five years. To guide visitors and tenants through the rapidly growing, multi-building complex, a sophisticated, custom-developed wayfinding kiosk system was developed and piloted this past summer...

World Market Center Las Vegas, Part 1

By John W. DeWitt

This July, after a breakneck integration schedule dictated by construction of building C, World Market Center Las Vegas went live with a 150-screen digital-signage network and six wayfinding interactive kiosks—just in time for the summer 2008 Las Vegas Market....

Brains Behind the Wall

By Jay Ankeney

If you listen carefully, you can almost hear the videowall in the lobby of Philadelphia's Comcast Center thinking. For 18 hours a day, the giant 83ft.-wide-by-25ft.-high,...

The Buzz: Installation Spotlight: Staples Center, Los Angeles

Staff Report

Arguably, fans of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers don't need arena-generated stimulus to get excited about their basketball team. Given the Lakers' historic...

Custom Signage Markets to Patients in Physicians' Offices

By John W. DeWitt

In pursuit of captive audiences beyond traditional retail venues, digital-signage applications are expanding into new market niches. In physicians' offices, for instance, waiting-room televisions are making way for custom digital signage that markets products and services to patients while they wait...

Toronto Deploys Wireless Signage on Commuter Trains

By John W. DeWitt

Digital signage has become a ubiquitous tool for informing and entertaining the traveling public—particularly via fixed installations in airports, bus terminals, and train stations. "We face unique networking challenges when deploying on moving trains," says Jonathan Rhee, vice president of operations for United Mobile Broadcasting Corporation (UMBC)...

Software as a Service: Hosted Digital Signage on the Rise

By John W. DeWitt

Software as a service (SaaS), often referred to as a hosted application, has proliferated in many business application areas over the past few years--with Salesforce.com as one the earliest and best-known pure SaaS applications. Two years ago, established digital-signage software maker Rise Vision...

2008 Pick Hit Award Winners

By Trevor Boyer

At InfoComm 08—as with any tradeshow—technological innovations generated the bulk of the buzz on the show floor. But with so much to see, and so much misplaced hype, it's easy to forget what was introduced last year in a different package—or to miss the truly revolutionary little I/O box. ...